Topsfield (Alexander Gillet)

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• (Posted 2018-04-22)  CPDL #49421:         

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2018-04-22).   Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 2 pages, 67 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Grace notes ignored throughout. Two more pairs of stanzas included from Watts' paraphrase. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.

General Information

Title: Topsfield
First Line: Sweet is the work, my God, my King
Composer: Alexander Gillet
Lyricist: Isaac Watts

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Set piece   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: Published in The New York Collection of Sacred Harmony, 1795, pp. 86-87, for four voices: two trebles, tenor, and bass. Words by Isaac Watts, 1719, paraphrase of Psalm 92, Part 1, with seven stanzas. Gillet used the first two stanzas of Watts' paraphrase in his composition.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 92.